SECOND APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1939, Page 7

SECOND APPEAL

MADE BY THE POPE IN NAME OF THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY. RETURN TO JUSTICE & TRUTH. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) ROME, August 25. The Pope, in broadcasting a second appeal for peace, said: "A grave hour is striking for the great human family, an hour of tremendous deliberation wherein our spiritual authority cannot disinterest itself from tho task of inducing mankind to return to the path of justice and truth and thus I speak to all you who carry the weight of such a great responsibility, because through our voice you arc listening to the voice of that Christ which schooled the world in the higher life, the voice in which millions and millions of souls place their trust in an emergency in which only His word can rise over the thunders of the earth. Today, when tension seems to have reached such a pitch that wo fear the outbreak of a tremendous whirlwind c-f war, wo make to rulers and peoples our warmest appeal to lay aside the threat of arms and try to resolve the present differences. The danger is vast, but there is still time. Nothing will be lost by peace, everything will be lost by war. With us is the whole of humanity, which looks for bread and freedom rather for the sword which kills and destroys. We invite all men to turn their gaze on high and ask our Lord with fervent prayers that His Christian mercy may descend abundantly on the tortured world placate angers and bring sunshine and the dawn oi a calmer future. In this expectation, in this hope, we impart to all men of ' heart our paternal benediction. I